Source: Musk sought to call some brands' CEOs to berate them for advertising less on Twitter; others lowered spend to the minimum needed to avoid confrontation
Financial Times :
Elon Musk says Apple threatened to “withhold” Twitter from App Store “but won't tell us why” and calls out Apple's lower Twitter ad spend and alleged censorship
Apple has cut back on its Twitter advertising, according to Twitter CEO Elon Musk.
Meta unveils Pseudonymized Facebook Identifiers, which combine timestamps and Facebook Identifiers, to make it harder for attackers to scrape unauthorized data
similar to Canary tokens which provide the “canary in the coalmine feature” to alert when there is a problem. The new pFBIDs both protect user privacy BUT ALSO flag advertisers vio...
Meta unveils Pseudonymized Facebook Identifiers, which combine timestamps and Facebook Identifiers, to deter unauthorized data scraping
Takeaways — We changed how we use Facebook Identifiers (FBIDs) after we observed that unauthorized scraping often involves guessing content IDs or using purchased FBIDs.
Bumble files for an IPO, says it had 42M MAUs, 2.4M total paying users, and lost $117M on revenue of $417M in the first nine months of 2020
Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch :
Facebook's purchase of Giphy gives FB insight into how and where gifs are shared outside of its own apps, including device IDs and keystrokes in Giphy tools
GIPHY joins Facebook's data collection arsenal — Facebook announced on Friday that it will buy Giphy, a popular GIF search engine …
WordPress.com owner Automattic says it will buy Tumblr from Verizon, take on ~200 staffers, and keep the porn ban; source says Automattic paid less than $10M
Verizon is set to sell the social network Tumblr to Automattic Inc, the owner of blog site and publishing tool Wordpress, the Wall Street Journal reports.